First Saturday Cultural Forum - Cúirt an Chreidimh

29/11/2017

On 23rd November, our speaker Mr Jose Antonio Ureta gave a lecture at the Central Catholic Library in Dublin on the topic: 'The Errors of Russia - 100 years a-spreading'.

30/08/2017

This Saturday 2nd September at 6pm, Professor Emeritus Dr. Gerard Casey, former head of the Department of Philosophy in UCD, shall give a talk entitled "Male and Female: Does it Matter Any More?" at the First Saturday Cultural Forum at the Central Catholic Library on 74 Merrion Square.
Be there or be cis-quare!

02/08/2017

Dr. Desmond Fennell is one of Ireland's great intellectuals, historian, Gaeilgeoir and Irish language enthusiast, and the next speaker at the Central Catholic Library on Merrion Square on August 5th at 6pm. Born in 1929, and publishing social commentary since the 1950s, "Ireland After the End of Western Civilisation" was one of his last books. The topic of his talk shall be his newly published autobiography.

08/06/2017

"Learning Loving: How I learned to live and to love after the breakdown of my marriage" by Dr. Joseph McCarroll delivered on Sunday 4th June, 2017 at the First Saturday Cultural Forum in the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square.

Learning Loving: How I learned to live and love after the breakdown of my marriage.

02/06/2017

Dr. Joseph McCarroll will deliver a talk entitled "How I learned to live and love after the breakdown of my marriage" to the First Saturday Cultural Forum this Saturday 3rd May, at 6pm at the Central Catholic Library on 74 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2.

04/05/2017

The Central Catholic Library (74 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2) will be hosting the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima and the Holy Relics of the soon to be canonised Blessed Jacinta and Blessed Francisco Marto to the Library on Saturday 6th May.

The programme is as follows:

10:30 – Possibility for private prayer in the presence of the Pilgrim Statue and veneration of relics of Blessed Jacinta and Francisca.12:30 – Short talk for Children on Fatima.

12:40 – Recitation of Regina Coeli, Rosary and Consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary

13:10 – Talk on the History of the Fatima Revelations. – Fr. Ailbe O’Reilly OCR

18:00 – Talk on Fatima – Alexander McKay

19/04/2017

A lecture on “THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF RELIGION AND ARCHITECTURE”
will be given in the Central Catholic Library this Thursday 20th April at 1 pm (74 Merrion Square South, Dublin 2).
The speaker will be Mr Nelson Fragelli, a researcher in medieval architecture.

You are very welcome to attend.

07/04/2017

Brian Nugent, author of many books on Irish history, politics and the Catholic Faith will be giving a talk on one of his latest books "Marian Apparitions in Ireland" this Saturday 8th April at 6pm in the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square, Dublin.

24/03/2017

"The Power of Chaste Desire - A Classical Understanding of Sexual Virtue - Part I" by Paraic Joseph Maher, former instructor at the Catholic University of America, delivered on 4th March, 2017 at the Central Catholic Library in Dublin.

"The Power of Chaste Desire - A Classical Understanding of Sexual Virtue" by Paraic Joseph Maher, former instructor at the Catholic University of America, de...

09/03/2017

Paraic Joseph Maher, former instructor at Catholic University of America, delivering our inaugural lecture entitled "The Power of Chaste Desire - A Classical Understanding of Sexual Virtue" at the Central Catholic Library, Merrion Square.